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feathers, black, and warty, particularly round the eyelids : un- 

 der the chin hangs a loofe, wrinkled, bare fkin, forming a pouch : 

 the crown of the head is deep fulvous yellow, and the feathers 

 at the back part longifti : the reft of the neck and breaft pale 

 yellow : the back and fcapulars are cinereous, margined with 

 brown : acrofs the breaft a band of the fame : the middle of the 

 feathers of the back brown : the wing coverts blueifh afh-colour, 

 margined with brown: the quills, fides, thighs, vent, and tail, 

 are greenifh black ; the laft confifts of twelve feathers, and is 

 rounded in fhape : the legs feven inches long, rough, naked but 

 a little way above the knee, and red: claws black. 



This fpecies was found by Dr. Forjter on New Tear's I/land, Place, 



near Staten Land*. It builds the neft in inacceffible places in 

 the rocks.. The fpecimen is in the collection of Sir Jo/. 

 Banks. 



Le grand Courlis de Cayenne, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 47. WHITE-NECK- 



Courlis a Cou blanc, PI. Enl. 976. ED I. 



'■pHIS is. much bigger than the common Curlew: length twenty- Description. 



feven inches. Bill brack : the head and neck rufous white j 

 "the firft deepeft : between the bill and eyes bare : general colour 

 of the plumage brown, undulated with grey, and glolTed with 

 green : the greater wing coverts white : legs red. 



Inhabits Cayenne. Place. 



• See Forfi. Voy. vol. ii. p. 521,. 



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